Law enforcement still looking for shooting suspects

Published: Wednesday, January 1, 2014 at 09:09 PM.

FORT WALTON BEACH — The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is still trying to track down the men responsible for shooting a Fort Walton Beach man early Tuesday morning.

De’on Sanders, 20, of Poulton Drive, was shot three times while standing outside a home on Yorktown Circle in Wright. Sanders was taken to a Pensacola hospital and is recovering after undergoing surgery on Tuesday, according to Michele Nicholson, spokeswoman for the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies found Sanders at 2:43 a.m. Tuesday in the front yard with wounds to his leg, abdomen and arm after someone called the Sheriff’s Office after hearing gunfire. The caller also reported hearing a vehicle speed off onto Willow Bend Drive, the Sheriff’s Office reported.

Sanders told deputies he had been outside the home talking on his cellphone when a car with three black males pulled up, got out of the car and shot him.

He was unable to provide any detailed description of the subjects or the car other than saying they were black males wearing black hooded sweatshirts and that one or more of them could have had dreadlocks, Nicholson said.

The Sheriff’s Office has not located any eye witnesses and they are still asking for additional information.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the Sheriff’s Office at 651-7400 or Emerald Coast Crime Stoppers at 850-863-TIPS.

Contact Daily News Business Editor Dusty Ricketts at 850-315-4448 or dricketts@nwfdailynews.com. Follow him on Twitter @DustyRnwfdn.

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FORT WALTON BEACH — The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is still trying to track down the men responsible for shooting a Fort Walton Beach man early Tuesday morning.

De’on Sanders, 20, of Poulton Drive, was shot three times while standing outside a home on Yorktown Circle in Wright. Sanders was taken to a Pensacola hospital and is recovering after undergoing surgery on Tuesday, according to Michele Nicholson, spokeswoman for the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies found Sanders at 2:43 a.m. Tuesday in the front yard with wounds to his leg, abdomen and arm after someone called the Sheriff’s Office after hearing gunfire. The caller also reported hearing a vehicle speed off onto Willow Bend Drive, the Sheriff’s Office reported.

Sanders told deputies he had been outside the home talking on his cellphone when a car with three black males pulled up, got out of the car and shot him.

He was unable to provide any detailed description of the subjects or the car other than saying they were black males wearing black hooded sweatshirts and that one or more of them could have had dreadlocks, Nicholson said.

The Sheriff’s Office has not located any eye witnesses and they are still asking for additional information.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the Sheriff’s Office at 651-7400 or Emerald Coast Crime Stoppers at 850-863-TIPS.

Contact Daily News Business Editor Dusty Ricketts at 850-315-4448 or dricketts@nwfdailynews.com. Follow him on Twitter @DustyRnwfdn.